--- title: "Report: Charting a Course to Secure the AI Era" description: Explore how MSPs can secure AI-driven environments, combat emerging cyberthreats, and unlock new growth opportunities with insights from Omdia’s latest cybersecurity analyst report. image: https://go.cynet.com/hubfs/og-image.jpg --- Analyst Report # Charting a Course to Secure the AI Era A Guide for MSPs AI is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape faster than most organizations can keep up. For MSPs, that's both a challenge and a significant growth opportunity. This Omdia eBook, commissioned by Cynet, gives you the strategic playbook to navigate the AI era, from emerging threat vectors to new service lines that drive revenue.  ## Download the Report What's Inside Cybersecurity in the AI Era - AI-enabled adversaries increased attacks by 89% year-over-year in 2025, leaving security teams little time for reactive measures - New threat vectors (like adversarial machine learning and data poisoning) are outpacing traditional security tools and strategies - Identities have become the new perimeter as agents, bots, service accounts, and AI platforms multiply across the IT estate - Seven key AI security challenges are driving the need for broad cybersecurity transformation across detection, response, and data management A Growth Opportunity for MSPs - 64% of IT and security leaders are turning to MSPs to help deploy agentic AI within their SecOps function, marking a major expansion of the MSP role - MSPs can leverage cybersecurity as a growth engine across client adoption, implementation, retention, and service delivery - The explosion of AI is creating new service line opportunities in AI enablement, AI infrastructure management, and AI governance - Selecting a vendor partner optimized for the MSP business model is critical to delivering scalable, effective security solutions Accelerating MSP Security and AI Readiness - Time to Know: instant, comprehensive visibility across endpoints, identities, cloud, and network activity surfaces what needs attention fast - Time to Act: AI-driven prioritization and guided response empowers MSP teams to move decisively and with confidence - Time to Resolve: automated investigation and remediation reduces manual effort, accelerates closure, and elevates security outcomes - MSP-optimized engagement models with transparent per-endpoint pricing create predictable economics aligned to how MSPs build margin Why This Report Matters The AI era is creating urgency across every layer of the security stack, and MSPs are at the center of the response. Whether your clients are asking how to secure their AI infrastructure, how to reduce tool sprawl, or how to stay ahead of faster, smarter adversaries, this eBook gives you the research, frameworks, and strategic guidance to lead those conversations with confidence.  About the Research This eBook was authored by Dave Gruber, Principal Analyst at Omdia (by Informa TechTarget), and commissioned by Cynet. The research draws on Omdia's February 2026 report, Results Are In: Agentic AI in SecOps Is Exceeding Expectations, based on surveys of IT security decision makers and practitioners across multiple industries and geographies. 64 % of IT and security leaders depend on MSPs to implement agentic AI capabilities within their SecOps function 41 % say consolidation has significantly improved their ability to operationalize threat intelligence 35 % report that AI-enabled security tools have reduced individual analyst workload 26 % cite managing too many disconnected point tools as their top security operations challenge ## Backed by the industry, loved by partners. ![MITRE\_ATTACK-Evals\_new\_logo](https://go.cynet.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported%20images/MITRE_ATTACK-Evals_new_logo.png?width=800&height=110&name=MITRE_ATTACK-Evals_new_logo.png) ### Outstanding results in 2025 MITRE - 100% Detection Visibility - 100% Technique-Level Coverage - 100% Protection [Learn more](https://www.cynet.com/mitre-attck-results/) ![G2-tags-spring2026](https://go.cynet.com/hubfs/G2-tags-spring2026.svg) ### Top-tier performance according to our users - 98% score for Real-Time Detection - 97% score for 24x7 support - 97% score for Automated Remediation [Learn more](https://www.g2.com/products/cynet/reviews) ![gartner-peer-insights-logo-white](https://go.cynet.com/hs-fs/hubfs/gartner-peer-insights-logo-white.png?width=173&height=60&name=gartner-peer-insights-logo-white.png) ### Outstanding results in 2025 MITRE - Overall 4.8/5 Rating - Product capabilities 4.8/5 Rating - Ease of deployment 4.8/5 Rating [Learn more](https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/extended-detection-and-response/vendor/cynet) [![Cynet\_Logo\_Dark](https://www.cynet.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Cynet_Logo_Dark-ran98v077f10fndpxr0xlwpxpz8adxxhbu64jr17mg.png "Cynet_Logo_Dark")](https://go.cynet.com/?hsLang=en) - [Why Cynet](https://www.cynet.com/why-cynet/) - [Platform](https://www.cynet.com/platform/) - [Partners](https://www.cynet.com/partners/) - [Resources](https://www.cynet.com/resources/) - [Company](https://www.cynet.com/about-us/) - [Blog](https://www.cynet.com/blog/) - [Pricing](https://www.cynet.com/packages/) [Request a Demo](https://www.cynet.com/request-a-demo/) - [Why Cynet](https://www.cynet.com/why-cynet/) - [Platform](https://www.cynet.com/platform/) - [Partners](https://www.cynet.com/partners/) - [Resources](https://www.cynet.com/resources/) - [Company](https://www.cynet.com/about-us/)